According to sources, more than 8 lakh people from Chennai have enrolled for the Aadhaar card so far.
Speaking to the press, Joint Director of Directorate of Census Operations (Tamil Nadu) M R V Krishna Rao said, ‘The Census department is now targeting to cover 70 to 75 per cent of the 41 lakh people (five years and above) in Chennai, excluding the newly-added areas, by September end… The deadline for the process of Aadhaar number generation and bio-metric data enrolment for the National Population Registry (NPR) in the city as well as the State was likely to be extended beyond September. The enrolment process is on in seven zones of the city. Currently, the process of biometric data enrolment through iris detection and fingerprinting is being done in 13 wards in Tondiarpet, nine wards in Ayanavaram, seven wards in Anna Nagar, 17 wards in Nungambakkam and 17 wards in Kodambakkam. In Royapuram, 65 per cent of enrolment was over and the first phase had been completed. We are expecting to start in Adyar by July 8. The process will start in four wards… As per June 28 figures, a total of 2.20 crore Aadhaar numbers have been generated in the State.’